Golden Fields St Kilda, Melbourne

Golden Fields Details

Golden Fields Address

Shop 2, 157 Fitzroy St
St Kilda VIC 3182
Map
Golden Fields Menu
Golden Fields Website

Golden Fields Contact Info

Phone (03) 9525 4488

Cuisines

Asian, Modern Australian

Chef

Andrew McConnell

Prices

Average Meal Price $64 - based on one entree & main course only
Entrees $9.00-$20.00
Mains $31.00-$68.00
Desserts $9.00-$16.00

Hours

Mon to Sun Noon - Midnight

Serves

Serves Lunch
Serves Dinner
Serves Late Dining
Serves Takeaway

Classifications

Restaurants

Golden Fields Awards

2012

The Age Good Food Guide 2012 - Best New Restaurant

2012

The Age Good Food Guide 2012 - One Chef's Hat

2012

Australian Gourmet Traveller 2012 - One Star

Overview of Golden Fields

Golden Fields is fairly new in the scene and has already been named Best New Restaurant – 2012 by The Age Good Food Guide. The menu has a wide assortment of Asian small plates and shared dishes. The venue has an open kitchen and a marble bar that clients can use as they wish—for full dinner or just having snacks with a glass of wine.

User Reviews of Golden Fields, St Kilda

Displaying: 1 - 5 of 5 reviews

7.3 Recommended

Food 9 Ambience 5 Service 8 Value 7

Outstanding is the only word you can use to describe Golden Fields. The Lobster Rolls are amazing. The Duck is sensational and the slow cooked Lamb shoulder is easily the best I have tasted. As for the service I have never had an issue. I have found them to be extremely attentive. I will qualify that by saying I have only ever sat at the Bar. But easily one of the better Restaurants I have been to since moving to Melbourne.

Apr 04, 2012

danehill
2

3.8 Below Average

Food 7 Ambience 4 Service 2 Value 2

I've eaten four times here but last time was the last time. The food is excellent, but monotonous, the ambience is fine when it's quiet but dreadful, when it's busy, noisy, staff rude and snooty, service slow. Pick a quiet time and sample their entrees. The overpriced mains add little to the experience.

Jan 14, 2012

forcheville
2

7.3 Recommended

Food 9 Ambience 7 Service 8 Value 5

Epic. That is the only way I can describe the dinner that Gerard, K and I had at Golden Fields the other day. I’d been sick all week and flat out at work so I pretty desperately wanted to get home and log some couch time but when K suggested dinner at Golden Fields I thought it was worth delaying my bonding session with my heater. I’d been to Golden Fields once before, a few weeks after it opened, and had been looking forward to going back. I was glad I decided to go out, the food was amazing even if we ordered way too much.

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Aug 14, 2011

twoMunch
8

7 Recommended

Food 8 Ambience 7 Service 5 Value 8

St Kilda is an inner-city bayside township with a history, and present, of extreme contradictions. Palatial mansions with breathtaking sea views, twin-set pearls and long-established fine dining institutions with soaring prices, juxtaposed against grubby medium-density housing, bohemian hipsters and grungy seedy bars attracting the fishnets and leathers. It is in this suburb of contradictions, opposite the lushness of Albert Park, that Golden Fields is situated. As the newly-born sibling to Cutler & Co and Cumulus, Golden Fields is similarly endowed with an air of monochromatic modern minimalism. Black chairs are silhouetted against the abundant natural light flooding through the floor-to-ceiling front windows. The halogen-bright industrial lighting reflects in deco mirrors and bounces off the galley bar’s cool marble slickness and a white tiled wall that almost shimmers in the same way as Shanghai skyscrapers on a hot summer day. Perching on the galley bar’s shelves are chemistry lab features of Erlenmeyer flasks and a stuffed wild bird, and kooky touches of a gleaming rollerskate, happy waving gold cat and bonsai-ed flora pots that soften an otherwise austere decor. Haunted-house red chicken feet clawed into the side walls completes the quirky, St Kilda-esque vibe.

Just as St Kilda is a suburb of contradictions, Australia is a country of contradictions. Deriving most of its recent history from the West, it yearns for closer connection, but is geographically situated and increasingly fascinated with the East. In the antique world, this fascination gave expression to the Chinoiserie movement a century or so ago. In the culinary world today, it is called fusion. It is in this doubly grey space of contradictions that Golden Fields sits. Yet, like its siblings, defying labels of modern Australian and also, modern Asian cuisine, Golden Fields occupies a world of its own. But, if “New China” is the “new frontier of world food” (as noted here), then with a decor that showcases an incredible attention to thematic detail down to the very plates and cutlery, and with creations that already exude calligraphic sensitivity, poise and strength, Golden Fields – with perhaps a little fine-tuning to the service — offers the opportunity to dine in a 21st century culinary Elysian Fields, accentuated by a brushstroke of Chinoiserie exoticism.